CLEVELAND, Ohio--The horrors that ISIS has inflicted on innocent children, women and men in Syria, Iraq and Kurdistan, have now hit the United States and Britain with the brutal execution of captured American photojournalist James Foley at the hands of an ISIS devil, speaking with a forked tongue and distinct London accent.

The pure evil of ISIS spread to the Foley home in Rochester, New Hampshire, where James Foley's parents John and Diane bravely stood on their front lawn and eulogized their son. "We have never been prouder of our son Jim", said Diane. "He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people."

The Foley's told President Obama their son was a courageous, fearless journalist with a big heart. John Foley said when his son was asked why he continued to return to dangerous areas of the world, he would say "Why do firemen go back into a blazing home? It was his job"

James Foley, who was 40, had been held for 6 weeks in Libya in 2011. He was working for the Global Post when he was kidnapped in Syria on November 22, 2012. A former captive who once shared a darkened cell with Foley, said Foley endured harsher beatings from their captors because he was an American, but that Foley always showed steely resolve and courage no matter what his captors did to him.

U.S. Special Forces had months earlier embarked on a rescue mission for Foley and other captives in Syria, only to discover they were no longer held in the building they had targeted.

Over 70 journalists have been killed in Syria. It's estimated that 20 other journalists, including Americans, are still held captive in there, many of them by ISIS. One of those journalists, Steven Sotloff appeared in the Foley execution video. The ISIS executioner threatened that Sotloff would be killed next if the U.S. doesn't stop air strikes against ISIS.

ISIS isn't the first enemy to underestimate and misread U.S. resolve. Experts see ISIS brutal execution video as a sign that the air strikes are being effective and damaging ISIS. Instead of ending the air strikes, Foley's execution led to a doubling-down on air strikes on the day the video was released. The strikes against ISIS will only intensify as U.S. intel hunts down Foley's killers. Obama vowed the U.S. will be "vigilant and relentless."

The President who once dismissed ISIS as J.V. terrorists, thankfully now recognizes they are in fact All-Pro terrorists bent on making the world their very own Sharia Law Super Bowl filled to the brim with pure evil.

In his statement yesterday on Foley's execution, the visibly angry and disgusted Obama called ISIS a cancer that that all countries need to join together an eradicate. "The entire world is appalled", said Obama. "No just God would stand for what they did yesterday or every single day." And neither should any countries with the means to eradicate ISIS.

Brits were shocked to hear Foley's executioner speaking with a London accent. But that accent should also serve as wake-up call for Americans who still think ISIS is only a problem and a threat in the mideast that they don't have to worry about and shouldn't have to deal with.

The ISIS terror army, which is now the largest and wealthiest terror organization in the world, is made up of radical Islam kool-aid drinkers from countries around the world. Since some of them hold passports that can get them into the U.S., the very real threat is that these ticking time bombs will return to their home countries or enter the U.S. and explode.

In his statement on ISIS President Obama said, "People like this ultimately fail. They fail because the future's won by those who build not destroy. The world is shaped by people like Jim Foley" To make sure ISIS does ultimately fail, the U.S. and the other nations of the world must show the steely resolve, fearlessness, defiance and courage James Foley showed in his captivity and heroic death.

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